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Good old Games :) Back to The Roots
2007-08-02, 11:59 PM #1
Heya Guys,

Police Quest,Kings Quest,Space Quest... a.s.o.
you remember these games?
you like them just like me ?
if yes you will love this :D

much fun, tell me what you think ;)

G-Man
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2007-08-03, 12:48 AM #2
Eh,I like the underdogs better. Old and un-updated as it may be.
2007-08-03, 3:12 AM #3
Funny this topic should come up. I saw an announcement somewhere about a new release of dosbox, and I went to their page, low and behold, it works on linux. And, it supports one of my favorite games of all time: Master of Magic. After a little fuss getting it setup, I spent the last 4 hours playing Master of Magic and banishing 4 other wizards into the void. It worked flawlessly, not a glitch in it. And their site says it works with dark forces as well.

http://dosbox.sf.net/
2007-08-03, 4:42 AM #4
I'd love to find an emulator that can run Syndicate and Syndicate Wars well. The latter is harder. It does run on XP, but it's unstable as hell and Dosbox is waaaay too slow an emulator for it to run at a respectable speed. And the former is just always unstable. :psyduck:
Hey, Blue? I'm loving the things you do. From the very first time, the fight you fight for will always be mine.
2007-08-03, 6:30 AM #5
It's not that old, but I'm playing through the first Splinter Cell game again now. Lotsofun!
"Harriet, sweet Harriet - hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."
2007-08-03, 6:38 AM #6
Tony, you know DOSbox has speed adjustments, right?
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2007-08-03, 6:48 AM #7
For some more resource-demanding games it's still choppy to the point of unplayability, even if you bring the cycles all the way up. Take Crusader for example. I think nothing you can do, short of running it straight from DOS, can make it run properly on a modern machine. I wish someone would make an XP compatibility patch for it, like how they made one for Privateer 2...
幻術
2007-08-03, 8:31 AM #8
Originally posted by Emon:
Tony, you know DOSbox has speed adjustments, right?


Yeah. But unless they've modified it recently it kind of has aneurisms at ultrafast settings. And that's still too slow.
Hey, Blue? I'm loving the things you do. From the very first time, the fight you fight for will always be mine.
2007-08-03, 8:58 AM #9
I was running MoM at 40k I think.
2007-08-03, 8:59 AM #10
Have you used Dosbox .7? It has big speed improvements from .65.
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2007-08-03, 10:08 AM #11
I'm on .65, since that's what debian currently packages. It'll upgrade shortly, probably. At 40k, MoM was running like crap, I downgraded it back to about 15k and it was much faster. Wish I did that yesterday :(
2007-08-03, 12:44 PM #12
commander keen for the win.
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2007-08-03, 4:31 PM #13
Originally posted by - Tony -:
Yeah. But unless they've modified it recently it kind of has aneurisms at ultrafast settings. And that's still too slow.

If you make it too fast, it'll choke.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2007-08-04, 3:37 AM #14
Originally posted by Brian:
I was running MoM at 40k I think.

Yeah, YOUR MOM!
Sorry for the lousy German
2007-08-05, 11:56 AM #15
If you set the cycles setting in DOSBox to max, it'll figure out a best speed automatically.

If you set it to auto, it'll use 3000 and let you adjust it until you run a high-performance game (really old games like Wolf 3D don't trigger it) then it kicks into max cycles for you.

And this goodoldadventures thing seems really... broken... and really empty. And is that JavaScript and HTML? At least they could've used Flash or Java...

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